Creating a Development-oriented Social, Movement and Language Skills Program: Investigating its Effectiveness on Improving the Developmental Indicators of Children with Global Developmental Delay

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. in Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of methods and educational planning, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of the development-oriented social, movement and language skills program on improving the developmental indicators of children with General Developmental Delay . The present study is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and is practical in terms of purpose. The study population included children aged 3-5 years with Developmental Delay in Tehran in 1401-1402, from whom 22 were selected as available and were tested in two groups of 11. The program of development-oriented games, which was compiled by systematic review the researches related to the developmental delays of these people, was taught to the children of the experimental group in the form of mother-child workshops (12 sessions), but no training was provided to the control group. The instruments used were the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ3TM) and the diagnostic interview based on the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and univariate analysis of variance was used to analyze the data and with software SPSS software version 26 was used. The results of the research showed the significant effect of the implementation of development-oriented games program on the

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Articles in Press, Corrected Proof
Available Online from 16 July 2025
  • Receive Date: 23 January 2024
  • Revise Date: 12 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 02 April 2024
  • First Publish Date: 16 July 2025
  • Publish Date: 16 July 2025